Name: Entophysalidaceae Geitler 1925

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: En.to.phy.sa.li.da’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Entophysalidaceae, the Entophysalis family

Pronunciation, gender: en-to-p^hy-sa-li-DA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Entophysalis Kützing 1843

Valid publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Siphononemataceae Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Geitler (1925) assigned this family to the order "Entophysalidales". Publication: Geitler L. Synoptische Darstellung der Cyanophyceen in morphologischer und systematischer Hinsicht. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 1925; 41:163-294.
  • 🧒 Copeland (1936) assigned the genus Heterohormogonium Copeland 1936 to this family. Publication: Copeland JJ. YELLOWSTONE THERMAL MYXOPHYCEAE. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1936; 36:20.
  • 🧒 Copeland (1936) assigned the genus Bacillosiphon Copeland 1936 to this family. Publication: Copeland JJ. YELLOWSTONE THERMAL MYXOPHYCEAE. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1936; 36:20.
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Hormathonema Ercegović 1929 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Tryponema Ercegović 1929 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Cyanostylon Geitler 1928 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Dzensia Woronichin 1929 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Chlorogloea Wille 1900 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧒 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned the genus Johannesbaptistia De Toni f. 1934 to this family. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧒 Komarek and Golubic (1990) assigned the genus "Myrionema" to this family. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧒 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned the genus Chlorogloea Wille 1900 to this family. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863. Publication: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Enfophysalidaceae"; "Eniophysalidaceae"; "Enlophysalidaceae"; "Enthophysalidaceae"; "Entopbysalidaceae"; "Entophrsalidaceae"; "Entophysafidaceae"; "Entophysahdaceae"; "Entophysaldaceae"; "Entophysaliclaceae"; "Entophysalldaceae"; "Entopliysalidaceae"; "Enzhophysalidaceae"; "Fntophysalidaceae"; "Hntophysalidaceae"; "Rntophysalidaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: FCME: 4; CHR: 3; TNS: 1; SP: 1; BRNM: 1.
  • 🧍 Silva (1980) notes that as circumscribed in the Index Nominum Genericorum, this family includes Chlorogloea Wille 1900, which is the type of Chlorogloeaceae Geitler 1925. Publication: Silva PC. Names of classes and families of living algae with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1980.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 17

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Chlorogloeaopsis Maithy 1975	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Corynephora Agardh 1824	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanoarbor Wang 1989	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanodermatium Geitler 1933	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Cyanoplacoma Molinari and Guiry 2021	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Entophysalis Kützing 1843	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Eoentophysalis Hofmann 1976	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Guyotia Schmidle 1905	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Lithocapsa Ercegović 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Nostocella" Gaillon 1833	not validly published	preferred name
    Paracapsa Naumann 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Perulagranum Green et al. 1988	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Phaeodermatium Hansgirg 1889	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Placoma Schousboe ex Bornet and Thuret 1876	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), illegitimate name	synonym
    Siphononema Geitler 1925	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Stilocapsa Ley 1947	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    Vanhoeffenia Wille 1924	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name

Parent taxon: Chroococcales corrig. Ardissone 1886

Assigned by: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺

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